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OUTLINE OF INTRODUCTION
AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CENSUSES
The importance of America as a leading country of capi-
talism. A model. Ahead of the others. Most freedom, etc.
Agricultural evolution. The significance, importance and
complexity of the question.
American agricultural statistics. Decennial censuses.
Similar material.
Himmer as a collection of bourgeois views. I n t h i s
r e s p e c t his short article is worth volumes.
The gist of his attitude: “family-labour” farms (or farmers)
or capitalist farms. Main propositions. “Decline of Capi-
talism”?
VARIANTS OF PLAN
I
3 main divisions and  s u b d i v i s i o n s.
3 s e c t i o n s and 2 s u b d i v i s i o n s (9 divisions)
Cf. p. 4 of the extracts from the 1 9 0 0 edition: in
1900 there were 5 divisions,* which is more r e a s o n-
a b l e.
Population density.
Per cent of urban population.
Population increase.
* See p. 427.—Ed.